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HYDRA demolitions: Revanth Reddy, KTR face-off over encroachments
Hyderabad: Telangana chief minister Revanth Reddy and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president KT Rama Rao (KTR) have locked horns over the demolition of illegal structures of encroached land by Hyderabad Disaster…
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Sheikh Hasina’s rise and fall: A tale of authoritarianism and decline
Sheikh Hasina’s surreal rise and fall is “the normal” with leaders who come to power riding high on public sympathy, suffering personal tragedy or as messiahs to the growing hardships of the…
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Opinion: Telangana CM private visit nightmare for residents
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy is never short of occasions to announce grandiose welfare schemes for the state and its people. He makes the best of whatever the event to…
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Recollecting visit to Ayodhya in 2010, 18 yrs after Babri Masjid demolition
Lest the political fanfare and the changes in nomenclature and anachronistic happening on the eve of the Ram Mandir at Ayodhya create any amnesia and sense of deliberate unfamiliarity about the monstrous…
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Why Revanth Reddy should traverse the course slow and steady
To put it symbolically, the Congress tri-colored palm has shoved the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) car off the highway. And the credit undoubtedly goes to Anumula Revanth Reddy. Given the party chief’s…
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Disgraceful language used in Indian Parliament
It is more than a week since Ramesh Bidhuri, a BJP member of the Lok Saba abused a fellow parliamentarian Danish Ali from the Bahujan Samaj Party, BSP, on the floor of…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad Institute of Excellence students march to mark International Peace Day
Thursday, September 21 was World Peace Day. And for a quirk, the Day was literally quiet and peaceful. Forgotten in the rigmarole of racism, hate crimes and hegemonic wars, there was no…
- Hyderabad
Concept of equality and justice in Islamic Jurisprudence
The growing misunderstanding among the faithful of the fundamentals of Shariah (divine laws) conflating it with Fiqh (Islamic Jurisprudence) has become a grave reason for it not being implemented in running family…
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Requiem for prince who preferred wilderness on faraway island to Asif Jahi durbar
Much of history is storytelling that makes the dull pages of past happenings into juicy and exciting texts. Modern-day writers and biographers have taken to fairytale doll houses of memories when they…
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Does Mohan Bhagwat’s Madrasa visit make any difference on ground?
The government ban on the Popular Front of India (PFI) and its eight affiliates is nothing short of the proverbial, “throwing a spanner” in Rashtra Sevak Sangh (RSS) chief, Mohan Bhagwat’s path…
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Motivational speaker playing tennis without a net
A couple of weeks back listening to a motivational speaker at an educational merit award function in the city the American bard Robert Frost’s quote,” playing tennis without a net” popped out…
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Is Raja Singh BJP’s ‘proud boy’?
Friday was trouble-free in Hyderabad setting to rest apprehensions of violence, as thousands and thousands of Muslims peacefully dispersed after performing Friday prayers showing exemplary patience, discipline and political maturity in the…
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Hyderabad: IMCR calls for unity against persecution of minorities
It was a noisy and boisterous Q& A session at the concluding moments of the inaugural meeting of the Indian Muslim Civil Rights(IMCR) in Hyderabad held at the Sultan Uloom Education society on Saturday,…